It is more crucial than ever to uphold the ‘polluter pays’ principle and ensure a level playing field.
Rail already bears the costs of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) through electricity and is already contributing to the reduction of carbon emissions for both freight and passengers.

The reform of the EU ETS should complete the logic of carbon pricing by channelling a fair share of EU ETS revenues back to the cleanest mode of transport: rail.

Investing EU ETS revenue in rail will accelerate decarbonisation, strengthen Europe’s competitiveness and contribute to achieving the EU’s climate, competitiveness and sustainable development objectives.

AERRL calls for a revision of the UNI « Prassi di Riferimento » in Italy, ensuring that it does not create parallel national ECM certification schemes and remains fully aligned with the EU framework. AERRL stands ready to support UNI and Fermerci, offering its extensive experience in maintenance activities, its involvement in the revision of the ECM Guidelines and its commitment to a competitive and interoperable European railway system.

AERRL, with other associations representing Europe’s railway sector, call on all policy and decision-makers to consider the severe side effects of the revision currently discussed, impacting more than the Transport sector.

The Energy Technical Specification for Interoperability (ENE TSI) pursues an essential objective for achieving efficient and seamless rail transport in Europe: an interoperable energy subsystem. More than 10 years after it came into force, the situation is alarming: progress in the interoperability of energy subsystems is barely visible and the situation for users remains difficult in some countries, especially for the increasing number of locomotives operating in several countries.
With the attached joint statement, AERRL,ALLRAIL and ERFA outline the importance of this issue for the leasing companies and the new entrants, but also for the entire railway system.

AERRL, with other associations representing Europe’s railway sector, call on all policy and decision-makers to consider the severe side effects of the revision currently discussed, impacting more than the Transport sector.

Associations representing the European railway sector welcome the proposal of the European Commission for the continuation of the CEF as part pf the EU Multi-annual Financial Framework.

As the EU’s new budgets approach, lessors and new entrants join forces to call for a strong, forward-looking successor to the European Rail Joint Undertaking under the new European Research Framework Programme.

Together with ALLRAIL and ERFA, AERRL urges the European Union to take the opportunity offered by the deployment of FRMCS to review and refine its approach of ERTMS deployment.